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Tell the Senate: Expand the Child Tax Credit now and reject attacks on low-income families

Cynical Senators are playing politics with the Child Tax Credit―and with the lives of millions of families with young children.

Some members of the Senate are lining up to block a tax package that will benefit 16 million children in lower-income families via an expanded CTC, despite a broad bipartisan House vote. Why? For some, the answer is simple: pure politics.

Tell the Senate that low-income families are not political pawns!

Expanding the Child Tax Credit is popular and is proven to dramatically reduce child poverty levels. So why are some members of the Senate trying so hard to stop the Senate from moving forward on this bipartisan package, and kill the CTC with poison pill amendments? Maybe because they think they can get a bill with more corporate tax breaks and a weaker CTC in the next Congress. Or maybe they don’t want to hand President Biden a legislative victory on an issue he has consistently championed. Whatever the reason, they are denying low-income families with children a bigger refund check just as millions of families are filing their taxes. We need Congress to act by the end of April to make it easier for people to receive a higher CTC as soon as possible. That’s why we are holding Senators accountable to take up this bipartisan tax package now.

The expanded Child Tax Credit included in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act would lift 400,000 children out of poverty in tax year 2023, rising to 500,000 above the poverty line in 2025. It would also add much needed income to about 16 million children in families struggling to meet basic needs.

Tell the Senate that low-income families are not political pawns!

Click “START WRITING” to send a message to your Senators right now and urge them to reject the stalling tactics of politicians playing political games and pass the expanded Child Tax Credit for low-income families before the end of tax season. Children and families need help now!

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Catherine Gorey

Posts by Catherine Gorey:

  • Emerging from the pandemic: How we place America’s children and families on a path to prosperity 
  • COVID-19 brought unique challenges, both for college students and those outside the college track
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  • COVID-19 and children: An ongoing nutrition crisis 
  • The long-term impact of COVID-19: Assessing the pandemic’s youngest victims 
  • Hunger in the U.S. Military: ‘Families have been struggling with this for a long time’ 
  • COVID-19 complicates progress toward a more humane immigration system 
  • COVID-19’s byproduct: A burgeoning increase in violent crime 
  • How can we make COVID-19 vaccine distribution more equitable? 
  • We must address the issue of student debt. How? 
  • COVID-19 and xenophobia: ‘What faith and morality call us to do’ 
  • ‘I had no choice but to quit:’ Child care crisis in the U.S. chases many out of the workplace